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settlement (countable and uncountable, plural settlements)

The act of settling.
settlement of debt
The state of being settled.
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A colony that is newly established; a place or region newly settled (even in past times).
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A community of people living together, such as a hamlet, village, town, or city.
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(archeology) A site where people used to live together in ancient times; an ancient simple kind of village.
(architecture) The gradual sinking of a building. Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement.
(finance) The delivery of goods by the seller and payment for them by the buyer, under a previously agreed trade or transaction or contract entered into.
(law) A disposition of property, or the act of granting it.
(law) A settled place of abode; residence; a right growing out of legal residence.
(law) A resolution of a dispute.

the act of settling

the state of being settled

newly established colony

Arabic: مُسْتَعْمَرَة‎ f (mustaʿmara), مُسْتَوْطَنَة‎ f (mustawṭana)
South Levantine Arabic: مستوطن‎
Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Belarusian: пасяле́нне (be) n (pasjaljénnje), пасяле́ньне n (pasjaljénʹnje) (Taraškievica), пасе́лiшча n (pasjélišča), сялі́ба f (sjalíba), аса́да f (asáda)
Bulgarian: се́лище (bg) n (sélište), посе́лище (bg) n (posélište)
Catalan: assentament (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 定居點 (zh), 定居点 (zh) (dìngjūdiǎn), 殖民地 (zh) (zhímíndì)
Coptic: ϭⲉⲣϭⲏ m (cercē)
Czech: osada (cs) f
Dutch: nederzetting (nl) f
Esperanto: kolonio
Finnish: siirtokunta (fi), uudisasutus
French: colonie (fr) f
Galician: asentamento (gl) m
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Ansiedlung (de) f, Siedlung (de) f, Niederlassung (de) f, Kolonie (de) f
Greek: οικισμός (el) m (oikismós), αποικισμός (el) m (apoikismós)
Hebrew: הִתְנַחֲלוּת‎ (he) (hitnaḥlút)
Hungarian: telep (hu), kolónia (hu)
Irish: lonnaíocht f
Italian: insediamento (it) m
Japanese: 入植 (にゅうしょく, nyūshoku), 定住 (ja) (ていじゅう, teijū), 植民地 (ja) (しょくみんち, shokuminchi), 前哨地 (ぜんしょうち, zenshōchi)

Khmer: please add this translation if you can
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: نیشتگە‎ (nîştge)
Macedonian: населба f (naselba)
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Nepali: बस्ती (bastī)
Pitcairn-Norfolk: setlment
Plautdietsch: Aunsiedlunk f
Polish: osada (pl) f, osiedle (pl) n
Portuguese: povoação (pt) f, assentamento (pt)
Russian: поселе́ние (ru) n (poselénije), коло́ния (ru) f (kolónija), посёлок (ru) m (posjólok) (township)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: на́се̄ље n

Roman: násēlje (sh) n
Slovak: osada f
Slovene: naselje n, naselbina f
Spanish: poblado (es) m, asentamiento (es) m
Swedish: koloni (sv) c
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Tibetan: གཞིས་ཆགས (gzhis chags)
Turkish: yerleşim birimi (tr)
Ukrainian: посе́лення (uk) n (posélennja), оса́да f (osáda)